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Do you have lots of biscuits/ cakes in your house?

123 replies

funsterbun · 17/03/2023 13:21

I'm trying to lose weight ( it's proving hard) and I have 3 children that literally eat non stop as they are very active/ growing etc. i am finding when I don't have snacks in the house it's easier for me but I don't want to be a complete fun Sponge when the kids bring friends over or DP fancies a few crisps with his week end beer. But... i am rubbish with will power. So my question is how do you manage snacks when you have family living with you?

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Mentalpiece · 18/03/2023 04:03

I don't keep biscuits, cake, chocolate or crisps in the house, but only because they give me terrible heartburn if I eat them.

Autienotnautie · 18/03/2023 07:24

I get ones I'm not bothered about - cookies, jam tarts. Crisps are my kryptonite I get low cal so if I do have some it's 80 cal.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 18/03/2023 07:33

I must admit, I do enjoy a well stocked snack cupboard.
mine is sectioned, I have my tub of proper biscuits (choc digestives/custard creams/bourbons/etc) I have wrapped biscuits, I have breakfasty items like fruit bars, oaty flapjacks and such, and then cake bars and pastries. It is a thing of beauty and even my ex husband makes a beeline to raid it when he comes and collects the kids.

Oblomov23 · 18/03/2023 07:35

Always. And crisps, tonnes. And popcorn and peanuts. And fully stocked cupboards of tinned tomatoes and coconut milk etc. unless you can't afford it, why on earth would you not?

Yirk · 18/03/2023 07:41

Not one for savoury snacks but it would be a sad life without my biscuits and chocolate.

LlynTegid · 18/03/2023 07:42

No, well they would not last long. Apart from crisp bread as an alternative to bread.

illiterato · 18/03/2023 07:43

Not biscuits as no one really likes them. I usually have some mini cheddars and some McCoy’s salt and vinegar crisps and some mini pepperamis. The dc are not really here that much to snack as they have a long school day so they have dinner as soon as the they get in.

Raineth · 18/03/2023 07:43

It’s really hard. I’m good at healthy eating when there’s no junk in the house but if I let it in for DC I last a few days then end up having some.

I do beat when I’m doing zero sugar as then I can’t think ‘just a little bit is ok’.

DanceMonster · 18/03/2023 07:44

Oblomov23 · 18/03/2023 07:35

Always. And crisps, tonnes. And popcorn and peanuts. And fully stocked cupboards of tinned tomatoes and coconut milk etc. unless you can't afford it, why on earth would you not?

Because we don’t regularly eat crisps, popcorn or peanuts. Why would we keep stuff in the cupboard that we don’t eat, whether we can afford it or not?

Lucamul · 18/03/2023 07:45

We have some crisps, small choc bars and biscuits, not cakes usually. They are specifically bought to bring out with a packed lunch at weekends so I just don't think of them as something to eat when at home. Occasionally I get crisp cravings and eat some anyway, but that's a few times a year.

When I want a snack between meals I'm usually hungry and want something like toast or a banana - something more filling than a biscuit.

Artisticpaint · 18/03/2023 07:52

Don’t keep cakes and biscuits and sweets but have the means to makes a cake.

The kids can have scones, crumpets or toast or cereal or fruit if hungry between meals I have a small scoop of high quality ice cream for weekday pudding

ShandaLear · 18/03/2023 07:55

I don’t really like sweets, ice-cream, cake or biscuits so they’re easy to avoid, but I can wade through my own weight in chocolate, crisps, nuts and wine in one sitting, so I don’t keep those in the house. I do a big shop on a Friday and the teenagers want to come with me to pick up their treats, otherwise I don’t bring them what they want 🙄. I pick up wine and a sharing bag of crisps for DP and once that’s gone, it’s gone. The teens get some sweets but they’re mostly quite healthy - DD will go for protein yoghurt, fancy muesli, and pink lady apples, and DS will go for ice-cream, sweets, and things like seaweed or Hippeas. DP likes those big muffins which nobody else eats and they last him a week.

JaninaDuszejko · 18/03/2023 08:04

My teenagers tease me that we are an 'ingredients only' household but it does makes them (and me) eat better. I never buy cakes and biscuits, if you want them you have to bake them (and the DC do, so in reality we usually have something in the house). We do, I hasten to add, also have things like crisps, nuts, bread, bagels, wraps, cheese, hummus, pate, baked beans, salad stuff, dried fruit etc so there's loads of snacky meal options. And they all still have Christmas chocolate around (wierdos).

AuntieMarys · 18/03/2023 08:09

Two adults here,and I never buy cakes, biscuits, sweets or chocolate.
We always have tortillas and nice crisps in, for afternoon drinking nibbles

DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy · 18/03/2023 08:12

Yes but as someone said only snacks below 100 calories. So a pack of Pom Pom Bears or Skips is really low and I feel like I've had a treat. Also Milky Ways or similar.. they give me that sugar boost I sometimes need. But I never have cakes or biscuits in. I could demolish a pack of chocolate digestives in one sitting so I just can't.

TheChosenTwo · 18/03/2023 08:13

2 kids still at home here, I buy biscuits. If you buy ones you don’t like you might be less tempted! For me that would be things like penguins, wagon wheels, party rings - I hate all of those and would never want to eat them 😂

Minieggbrownies · 18/03/2023 08:39

Currently we have in the house crisps, biscuits, nice yoghurts, hot cross buns, cake bars.

I'm pretty disciplined. We all generally have just one thing a day. A multi bag of crisps last ages as only the dc eat them and it's just for school a few times a week. The cake bars have been in the cupboard for weeks. We will all have a hot cross bun layer and that will be our little treat for the day.

We are definitely an everything in moderation family apart from the teenager who would eat everything in sight.

28January · 18/03/2023 08:42

We were never a snack family apart from popcorn (pop your own) watching a family movie. When the kids were younger I would bake, mainly for lunchboxes, but usually only once a week. Didn’t really buy biscuits - again, sometimes I would make cookies - I might buy crisps if we were having ham rolls for lunch on a Saturday to have with them. Two still live at home (adults) and if they want snacks they buy their own but again they just buy what they want at the time, not extra to keep in the cupboard. It wasn’t some kind of virtuous thing, we just tended to eat proper meals and didn’t need extra.

BooksAndHooks · 18/03/2023 08:47

The kids have specific crisps, cereal bars etc for lunch boxes. Nobody has these outside of lunchboxes or there isn’t enough for the week.

We don’t have biscuits usually in the house and only have cakes in around special occasions. When we have cakes in there tends to be enough for one cake each so there isn’t just free grazing of things like that. E.g I bought a box of cakes yesterday for St Patrick’s day so we each had one for pudding. It’s not something that just sits in the cupboard to tempt me.

The other snacks the kids have are either healthy things like fruit, cheese etc or I make sure it is things I don’t actually like. Same as when I buy things for me specifically I tend to get things I know they don’t like otherwise I won’t get any.

Oblomov23 · 18/03/2023 08:48

@DanceMonster

What a strange response. That wasn't the point I was making. No one is obliged to have things in their house they don't like. Don't eat. I don't have Brussels sprouts or liver in my house either! Hmm

JeepersCreeperrs · 18/03/2023 08:50

Well I’m coeliac and nobody else is so that helps.

but I also decided to just stop eating milk chocolate, only dark. So now we have milk chocolate in the house but it’s not mine, so I don’t touch it.

DelurkingAJ · 18/03/2023 08:51

We have crisps, chocolate and biscuits in. All a healthy weight (DS1 was underweight for a bit). DSs know that they can snack on fruit, bread and cheese without asking but other stuff they have to check (they are 6 and 10). Cake is for tea time. I do eat more than I possibly should but I’m never on a diet and have always just eaten what I fancy…blessings of being tall with a rapid metabolism. It’s like we have plenty of booze in but don’t drink every night.

LadyKenya · 18/03/2023 08:55

I have some biscuits, and kit kats mainly. I always bake my own cakes. I am not fussed about these things though tbh. Other than my cakes the rest could be there for ages before being eaten.

Newnameinvade · 18/03/2023 08:56

Don’t tend to buy too much , mainly because if they are there , we eat them .

especially me , I can’t stop myself sometimes. My dd15 will also sneak a massive handful on her way out the door instead of breakfast if she gets the chance , so it’s just easier not to have them in .

saying that , I have an orange club hidden in the medicine cabinet, and some m and s butter biscuits behind the book case , waiting for when I sit down with a brew and a book

Bree82 · 18/03/2023 08:56

No because I ate them all :/
but I haven’t relaxed them since the last time!
basically gave up lots of things for lent lol